Zara Fagen

How to Minimize Homeschooling Books – What is a Minimal Amount?

Let’s be honest, worrying about how to minimize homeschooling books is a first-world problem that we are fortunate enough to experience, right?  Nonetheless, the struggle is real.  It shows up in questions like…

How many books is “too many” books?

What is a “minimal” number of books?

What do you do with all of your “extra” books?

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Intentional Homeschooling in 2019

 

Homeschooling with Intention: All the tools, tips, and strategies you need to create the homeschool you always imagined.  From the author of Minimalist Homeschooling. Let’s talk about how to do some really intentional homeschooling in 2019, shall we?

How would you complete this sentence:

I want our homeschool to be… ?

Have you ever wondered why your real-life homeschool is so different from the one you always imagined?

Do you ever feel swept-up in the current of homeschooling, and before you know it, another day is done?

Are you struggling with intentional homeschooling, distractions, juggling, balancing, and focusing on what is most important?

 

If you’re eager to create the homeschool you imagine – the homeschool that looks and feels the way you’d like – then let’s make 2019 your most intentional homeschool year ever, shall we?

Homeschooling with Intention - Create an intentional homeschool so you can homeschool the way you always imagined.  From the creator of the Minimalist Homeschooling Process, and Simple is the New Smart.  #MakeHomeschoolingSaneAgainHomeschooling with Intention - Create an intentional homeschool so you can homeschool the way you always imagined.  From the creator of the Minimalist Homeschooling Process, and Simple is the New Smart.  #MakeHomeschoolingSaneAgain

 

I really wish that I could explain intentional homeschooling in a quick blog post, but this is going to require some honesty, self-reflection, equipping, and strategizing.  So, I created a 4-day mini-course, in which you will create a strategy to start homeschooling the way that you have always wanted.

Homeschooling with Intention: How to create the homeschool that you have always imagined. From the author of Minimalist Homeschooling and Creator of the Minimalist Homeschooling Master Class Simple is the New Smart #makehomeschoolingsaneagain

Each day, you’ll receive a short video about intetional homeschooling, and worksheets to make it happen.  Plus, there’s in-course commenting, and an exclusive facebook group for plenty of support and accountability. 

Here are some of the things we’ll talk about:

  • how you may be approaching your homeschool backwards,
  • what works, and what doesn’t,
  • how to make a plan that is so easy to follow you can’t help but stay on track,
  • and how to stay focused amid all the distractions, temptations, and juggling.

And, since I want EVERYONE to be able to approach their homeschool with intention, I have priced it less than what you spend on a few cups of coffee.

Make sure that you sign-up soon, because we’re all going to take this journey together! Together, we can make homeschooling sane again ;).

Wishing you all the simple things,
Zara

 

Homeschooling with Intention: How to create an intentional homeschool, with all the the self-reflecting, strategizing and equipping.  From the creator of the Minimalist Homeschooling process.

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Gameschooling: The Best Educational Games: Inexpensive and compact. Minimalist Homeschooling with Zara PhD

Best Educational Games for $10 or Less – Minimalist Gift-Giving Guide

As someone who has recently purged my home (and schedule), the holidays present a unique challenge: How to give gifts that we truly love and need, without adding too much *stuff* to our space.  Perhaps even more stressful that choosing gifts for our own children, is giving extended family gift ideas for our children… am I right?  This is why I am offering our personal choices for the best education games that are small, and inexpensive.

Not just any games, either!  These are…

  • all different kinds of educational,

  • small enough that they won’t take-over your home,

  • and around $10, or less.

It’s the trifecta!

Therefore, this minimalist gift-giving guide for games is equally good for gift-buying, as gift-suggesting!  Great gifts for under $10, that every homeschooler will love, and that fit in small spaces!  Let’s get started!

Gameschooling: The Best Educational Games: Inexpensive and compact. Minimalist Homeschooling with Zara PhD

Plus, I’ve done my best to include games that are enjoyable for the parents, too!Read More »Best Educational Games for $10 or Less – Minimalist Gift-Giving Guide

Minimalist Homeschool Kindergarten & First Grade Curriculum

Welcome to homeschooling!  Many homeschoolers are eager to get started, until they try to get started.  Ha!  There are sooooo many resources out there for our little ones that it can be exciting, terrifying, overwhelming, and appealing all at once!  Not too mention exhausting, time-consuming, expensive…  Today, let’s cut through the clutter a bit.  Here are my favorite simple yet effective resources for our minimalist homeschool kindergarten & first grade!

**If you see something in bold, that is a link for your convenience 🙂 **

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Easy Homeschool Planning – Spiral Notebook Homeschool Schedule SIMPLIFIED

Spiral Notebook homeschool scheduling has been popular for a while.  Spiral notebook scheduling is the idea that parent-teachers should write out their child’s assignments for the next day on a single notebook page the night before.  However, I have found a few major drawbacks to this style of scheduling because I am all about EASY homeschool planning.  Here I will show you how I have remedied those downfalls and SIMPLIFIED my spiral notebooking homeschool schedule.  I also made it MORE USEFUL.  Let me show you:

First, my problems with spiral notebook homeschool scheduling:

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What Minimalist Homeschooling is NOT

Minimalist homeschooling is a growing movement among homeschoolers who want to prepare their children, meet goals, and maintain their sanity.  I mean, isn’t that what every homeschooler is looking for?  So of course, everyone is eager to know what Minimalist homeschooling is.

Well, I wrote a book on what it is, and I have blogged a whole lot about what minimalist homeschooling is, but there seem to be some common misconceptions.  So, I’m here to talk today about what minimalist homeschooling is NOT.Read More »What Minimalist Homeschooling is NOT

Chronically Exhausted and Foggy? Adrenal Fatigue Basics

Everyone needs to know about adrenal fatigue – what exactly it is, and how to address it.  You may not even know that you need to know about it, but trust me, as you read you will come to see its importance.

Adrenal fatigue symptoms are rampant among ourselves and our friends, and especially among mothers.  I want to spread the word so that more people can support their adrenal glands and avoid the unhealthy state that so many of us are mislead to believe is “normal.”

You can listen to this post here:

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